Fifty years ago Sunday the Beatles played the Ed Sullivan show. That means it's been 50 years since kids all over the country put down their band instruments and picked up the electric guitar. Pat ...

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If Pat Metheny never plays another single note, he would have already lived a "bright size life." If there is one thing that Metheny cares for as much as playing and composing, it is education. He was ...

In his short but brilliant career, he pioneered a new standard of rapid-fire virtuosity on the electric bass and helped bridge the jazz and pop... Jaco Pastorius: 20 Years Later Jaco Pastorius: 20 ...

If only every jazz artist had an advocate like label owner/project producer Bob Bobbing. Bass wunderkind Jaco Pastorius seemingly leapt into the jazz scene in 1976 with the quadruple punch of his ...

Pat Metheny and Lyle Mays co-wrote most of the group's songs Group is best known for rock-meets-Brazilian-meets-jazz sound The band hasn't worked together in seven years SANTA MONICA, Calif. — The ...

Twenty years ago Friday, bassist Jaco Pastorius died in a Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., hospital as a result of injuries sustained during a fight in a local nightclub. He was 35. On the anniversary of his ...